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In what's also known as the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and cities, have been to a substantial measure capable of face up to and form royal instructions. while there has been little open clash, there has been occasionally a shocking measure of autonomy, rights and reciprocity at the a part of the king's vassals. this can be a research of 1 such kind of resistance: the competition to army levies. This competition happened in the course of a interval of situation, throughout the 1630s and 1640s, whilst the Crown's have to elevate a military got here into clash with a concept of kingship that was once faraway from absolute. From the king's advisory councils to parliament, from urban councils and seigneurial estates, to the main humble villages, Castilians had recourse to a variety of political and juridictional capability with which to dispute the king's claims and keep away from conscription.

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